Apply to the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program

To apply please submit:

• Resume and short bio, including a description of the kinds of jobs/functional experience you’ve had (editing, finance, marketing, operations, reporting, technology, sales and so forth).

• Nomination letters from at least two of the company’s top executives, including one from an immediate supervisor, must be submitted.

• A five-to-seven page presentation that includes the following:

• A statement that (1) identifies three core trends in news businesses that (2) have specifically and substantially affected your company, and (3) a brief explanation of the nature and implications of those effects.

• A description of a challenge now confronting your company that is central to the company’s future. Please pick one that you might realistically use as the core platform for your participation in this program. In addition to describing the challenge, please give us your perspective on what success against that challenge would look like and your current view of what it would take to achieve that success.

• A statement on the journalistic mission of your company and how that mission would influence you in the way you took on the challenge just identified.

• A statement that demonstrates that a combination of support from others as well as your current role give you sufficient responsibility and authority to lead your company’s efforts against the kind of challenge you have identified.

• A description of how you hope to benefit from the program personally and how your organization hopes to benefit.

Application Deadline: December 1, 2008

Contact Information
Laura Reizman
Email: lr2259@columbia.edu